Advanced threat protection – as standard

Posted On June 23, 2016

Protect your business from targeted threats like phishing and spear phishing with advanced threat protection

Our customers get advanced threat protection as standard because viruses and spammers don’t attack you based on your package limitations. Using advanced policies, SecureSMART gives you advanced threat protection from the new generation of email threats.

The move to intelligent and targeted attacks means that you or your organisation could be held to ransom after just one click. Using our in-built advanced policy builder to protect your business from this type of threat means that click never happens.

Already set up

Of course we have a standard set of checks and filters set up in the system and example of one of these would be the check we perform around the age of the sender’s domain, the newer the domain, the more likely it is to be a threat. New domains come online frequently and many of them are legitimate. However, if we see a domain which jumps from sending nothing or a small number of emails to suddenly sending thousands, then we know something is wrong so we stop them from getting through to your end users.

What can you set up?

As well as all the pre-set policies, here are some other example advanced threat protection policies you can set up free of charge in the FuseMail® portal:

Checks around your domain(s). As we are a cloud service, your internal mail does not come through us, so if we see an email coming in supposedly from your domain, we know to stop it. This policy can protect you from social engineering style attacks such as phishing and spear phishing.

Searches for keywords in the message body of emails coming from outside your domain. You can set up a policy to scan your emails for keywords such as BACS, wire transfer, bank transfer, credit card details and so on. This reduces the risk of falling prey to spear phishing attacks as this is the information that these emails ask for. You could argue that a valid email could contain this type of content – no worries, simply release it from the FuseMail® message logs with one click.

Regular expressions. Setting up a series of regular expressions to detect how near a match your domain is to the sender’s domain can also be another step towards protecting you from social engineering attacks. Again, this can easily be set up in our advanced policies section.

Once an email is marked as suspicious, it is sent to quarantine. Once an email is quarantined, it can be viewed in the administration portal where it will be marked as a policy breach. Depending on how you have set up your end user spam reports, you can opt to have these appear in the spam report or not.

Need help?

All you need to do to set up these example policies and more, is give our award-winning Support Team a call – talk them through what you want and they will set it all up for you or take you through the steps. Once a policy has been set up you enjoy the benefits immediately – no waiting.

Want to start benefiting from these policies right away? Call the FuseMail Support Team now on
+44 (0) 800 093 2578.